COVID-19 Office Hours for ESG Recipients April 27, 2020 Reminders - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

COVID-19 Office Hours for ESG Recipients April 27, 2020

Reminders • A recording of today’s session, along with the slide deck and a copy of the Chat and Q&A content will be posted to the HUD Exchange within 2-3 business days • Event information for upcoming Office Hours, along with copies of all materials can be found here: https://www.hudexchange.info/homelessness-assistance/diseases/#covid-19-webinars- and-office-hours

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Panelists/Resource Advisors • Norm Suchar – Office of Special Needs Assistance Programs (SNAPS) • Lisa Coffman – SNAPS • Marlisa Grogan – SNAPS • Aaron Weaver – Office of Community Planning and Development, Chicago • Brett Esders – SNAPS • William Snow – SNAPS • Abby Miller – SNAPS

Agenda • ESG Recipients Involvement in COVID Response • ESG Program – Supplemental COVID-19 Allocation (ESG-CV) o Funding Overview o Strategic/Innovative Investments o Rehousing Strategy o Consolidated Planning • Mega-Waiver • Eviction Moratorium • Learning Opportunities & Resources 5

ESG Recipient Involvement in COVID Response If you are not already, get involved in the public health response immediately. • Connect with your state/local Office of Emergency Management, to understand the sheltering and safety response for people who are COVID positive, symptomatic and at high risk of severe illness. • Coordinate with Continuum(s) of Care in your geography to find out how they are working with their local public health departments. • Complement these efforts; don’t duplicate them. • Support efforts to provide safe temporary housing, including isolation and quarantine options offered through non-congregate settings. 6

Prioritize COVID-19 Response • SNAPS understands your #1 priority right now is responding to COVID-19 • Don’t stress about performance metrics, subrecipient monitoring • HUD will take these extraordinary circumstances into strong consideration for future monitoring • Encouraged to be as flexible as possible when thinking through local evaluation metrics 7

Re-Housing Investment Priorities • To prevent the further spread of COVID-19 among people experiencing homelessness, start housing people in unsheltered locations and congregate shelters • For communities that have non-congregate shelter, start housing people as they exit so they don’t return to unsheltered or congregate settings • Start planning prevention activities and focus on coordinating with the many other CARES Act resources • Engage property owners and landlords 8

Re-Housing Strategies • Update Coordinated Entry policies and procedures and Written Standards. • Identify subsidy models that are easy to execute. • Roll out re-housing assistance in stages. • Target outreach based on how much funding is available (if you put out a call to apply to everybody who needs help, you could be overwhelmed by requests). 9

Re-Housing Strategies • Include people with lived experience, Black people, people of color, young people and LGBTQ identified people on resource allocation and decision-making groups. • Look at your current data (disaggregated by race, by gender, and the intersection of race and gender). Determine where there are the greatest racial inequities. Allocate funds to address the inequities at both programmatic and systems level. 10

Re-Housing Strategies • Contract with organizations that are experts in reaching and engaging with underserved and marginalized populations (e.g. YWCAs, Urban Leagues, CDCs, local NAACP chapters, communities of faith, Housing Justice Alliance local chapters) • Collect data on placements, type of placement, type and length of assistance, geography of placement, and returns to homelessness and monitor it by race, gender and the intersection of race and gender. 11

ESG-CV Consolidated Planning – Start NOW Amend or prepare plans even before the notice or the second ESG-CV allocation –subsequent allocations will need additional amendments 12

ESG-CV Alternate Requirements • No matching requirement • No spending cap on Emergency Shelter and Street Outreach • Up to 10% of the grant can be spent on Administrative activities • Income eligibility 50 percent AMI for Homelessness Prevention • Allows deviation from applicable procurement standards All programmatic activities must either prepare for, respond to, or prevent coronavirus 13

ESG-CV Alternate Requirements • Allows deviation from applicable procurement standards • Citizen participation/consultation requirements not required • No minimum period of use for Emergency Shelters • May not require program participants to receive treatment or perform any other prerequisite activities as a condition for receiving shelter, housing, or services All programmatic activities must either prepare for, respond to, or prevent coronavirus 14

Basic Process to Receive ESG-CV Grant Agreement To access ESG-CV funding, communities must first complete a Substantial Amendment to their most recent Annual Action Plan in IDIS to add ESG-CV as an available resource The following five elements are required: • Expected Resources (AP-15) • Annual Goals and Objectives (AP-20) • Projects (AP-35) • SF-424 (AD-25 (CP); AD-26 (AAP)) • Certifications – new certifications for States (PR-15 (CP); AP-12 (AAP)) 15

Expected Resources (AP-15) ESG-CV funding should be added as an “Other” funding source on the Sources table: 1) Click the “Add” link at the bottom-right of the table on the screen 2) For Anticipated Resource, select “Other” 3) For Other Funding Source, enter “FY2020 ESG-CV” 4) Enter total ESG-CV available and complete the rest of the screen 16

Annual Goals and Objectives (AP-20) Adding a new goal is not required for the first allocation, but should be updated when completing the amendment for the second allocation of ESG-CV funds If adding a new goal (as opposed to updating an existing goal): • Amend Consolidated Plan using the SP-45 Goals screen to create the new goal • Once created in SP-45, it will be available on the AP-20 Annual Goals and Objectives screen 17

Projects (AP-35) • Create a single new FY 2020 Project using the Add Projects screen and then use the AP-35 Projects table to add that project to the 2019 Annual Action Plan Amendment • One project for FY20 and ESG-CV allocations: • On the Add Project screen: o Program Year: 2020 o Project Title: “ ESG20 Jurisdiction Name” o Project Description: Provide a high-level description of all eligible activities (e.g., SO, ES, RRH, HP, HMIS, Admin) that will be funded o Estimated Amount for HESG: initially ESG-CV first allocation, but total will eventually include FY 2020 allocation and ESG-CV second allocation 18

Projects (AP-35) • Return to 2019 AAP amendment, AP-35 Projects screen • “Add a Project” link at the bottom of the Projects table • Search for 2020 ESG project and then click "Add" in the Action column • Update the following on Edit Project screen o Estimated Amount and Expected Resources o Associate the project to annual goals and priority needs o Enter the project description and target completion date o Select goal outcome indicators o Click Save - project is added to AP-35 table Recipients do not have to: × Specify an amount for each activity , or × Identify subrecipients 19

SF-424 and Certifications Complete the new forms using the appropriate link(s) on the AD-25/26 Administration screen Do not overwrite the 2019 forms that are already uploaded – either: • Remove the 2019 forms, rescan and combine as a PDF both the 2019 forms AND the new 2020 ESG-CV forms and re-upload ; or • Upload the 2020 form to the Unique Grantee Appendices only if the attachment link is empty 20

Approval Process Following community submission, the appropriate HUD Field Office will: 1) Review the Substantial Amendment and mark the amended plan as “Review Complete” in the eCon Planning Suite 2) Issue ESG-CV grant agreements 21

Citizen Participation and Consultation Citizen Participation and Consultation requirements are: • Not applicable to ESG-CV funding (although must publish how the allocation will be used on Government web site) • Applicable to CDBG-CV funding 22

Citizen Participation and Consultation If a community is simultaneously completing Substantial Amendments to both ESG-CV and CDBG-CV , then the Substantial Amendments are subject to CDBG- CV Citizen Participation and Consultation Requirements and the community will have to provide public notice and reasonable opportunity to comment for no less than 5 days 23

Mega-Waiver Highlights – ESG (FY20 & older) • HMIS Lead Activities 24 CFR 576.107(a)(2) • Re-Evaluations for Homelessness Prevention Assistance 24 CFR 576.401(b) • Housing Stability Case Management 24 CFR 576.401(e) • Restriction of Rental Assistance to Units with Rent at or Below FMR 24 CFR 576.106(d)(1) These waivers are not currently applicable to ESG-CV funds. 24